Describe your school's strengths and needs based on a school improvement document, such as the school's SALT visit report, its SALT survey data, or its school improvement plan.
Based on the 2007-2008 SALT survey reports for North Kingstown High School:
Strengths at NK include:
- Teachers rate attitudes toward educational practices high, including:
Citizenship, social competence, and critical thinking
Small group instruction
Integration and interdisciplinary practices
Authentic mastery assessment and instruction
- Teachers have parent contact and involvement at least once a quarter throughout the school year
- Teachers monitor individual student strengths often
- Teachers use rubrics and scoring sheets often to evaluate student work
- Group problem solving and small group discussion are used several times a month to weekly
- Students are assessed through a variety of methods (short answer, multiple choice, worksheets, textbook problems)
- Teachers disagree that students are disruptive in the classroom
- A developed curriculum
- School is flexible with schedules in regards to regrouping students or modifying the length of periods
- Parents are involved in their children's education
- Teachers feel supported by local and national teacher unions
- Most teachers have never felt the fear of being hurt or bothered by a student at school and felt the need to bring personal protection to school
- Overall, students perceive a positive school climate
- 80% of students think they will graduate from high school (close to the actual graduation rate)
- Student attendance is 90% on average
- Technology is often used in school (student and teacher use)
- Parents feel NK is a good school and that the school is supported by the community
Weaknesses/Areas to improve at NK include:
- Teachers tend to disagree with the importance of heterogeneous grouping and inclusion in their individual classroom
- Teachers rarely ever teach interdisciplinary units
- Teachers need to identify student learning styles in an effort to match instruction to student strengths and needs
- Small group active instruction are only used a few times a month
- Teachers report a lack in (team) planning time
Based on the above mentioned needs at NK, I see the following in my classes:
- Teaches disagreeing with heterogeneous groupings
- Very little interdisciplinary units
- Individual student learning styles not being considered
Describe your school's strengths and needs based on a school improvement document, such as the school's SALT visit report, its SALT survey data, or its school improvement plan.
Based on the 2007-2008 SALT survey reports for North Kingstown High School:
Strengths at NK include:
- Teachers rate attitudes toward educational practices high, including:
- Citizenship, social competence, and critical thinking
- Small group instruction
- Integration and interdisciplinary practices
- Authentic mastery assessment and instruction
- Teachers have parent contact and involvement at least once a quarter throughout the school year- Teachers monitor individual student strengths often
- Teachers use rubrics and scoring sheets often to evaluate student work
- Group problem solving and small group discussion are used several times a month to weekly
- Students are assessed through a variety of methods (short answer, multiple choice, worksheets, textbook problems)
- Teachers disagree that students are disruptive in the classroom
- A developed curriculum
- School is flexible with schedules in regards to regrouping students or modifying the length of periods
- Parents are involved in their children's education
- Teachers feel supported by local and national teacher unions
- Most teachers have never felt the fear of being hurt or bothered by a student at school and felt the need to bring personal protection to school
- Overall, students perceive a positive school climate
- 80% of students think they will graduate from high school (close to the actual graduation rate)
- Student attendance is 90% on average
- Technology is often used in school (student and teacher use)
- Parents feel NK is a good school and that the school is supported by the community
Weaknesses/Areas to improve at NK include:
- Teachers tend to disagree with the importance of heterogeneous grouping and inclusion in their individual classroom
- Teachers rarely ever teach interdisciplinary units
- Teachers need to identify student learning styles in an effort to match instruction to student strengths and needs
- Small group active instruction are only used a few times a month
- Teachers report a lack in (team) planning time
Based on the above mentioned needs at NK, I see the following in my classes:
- Teaches disagreeing with heterogeneous groupings
- Very little interdisciplinary units
- Individual student learning styles not being considered